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Sabotage groups in America are unbelievably strong, Shallenberger feels. They are tremendously well organized and never do anything until they are sure of its success. "Fifth Columnists are smooth operators and will have little trouble pulling the wool over many American eyes." he stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pre-War Germany Recalled By Student Now in Business School | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...totaling 18,000 tons, including an armed trawler and a good-sized supply ship; the capture of 215 Germans and ten Quislingist Norwegians; the carrying off of 300 Norwegian patriots who wanted to fight for Britain; and-here was the propaganda-the distribution to Norwegians of food, cigarets, chocolates, wool yarn and high heart. From Stockholm it was reported that the Germans answered this bagatelle with considerable fury: by fining the Svolvoerans 100,000 crowns, burning the homes of the escaped patriots, arresting some who abetted the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Hit-and-Ruin Raids | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...other, it is the only transportation system linking all the Plata basin. But the Plata bloc has used this waterway almost exclusively to carry trade abroad. Canned and frozen beef from Uruguay's frigorificos (packing plants) and saladeros (salting plants), as well as most of Uruguay's wool, go to Europe. Argentina sends its flaxseed (84% of the world trade total), its wheat (23%), its corn (71%), its beef (50%) abroad. Bolivia's copper, lead and silver go abroad and most (80% ) of its tin-mined amid the ruins of the Inca Empire in the Andes-goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Parley on the Plata | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...whipping boys for the rebellion were turned up every day. One was Mihai Itsa-Marin, one-armed mayor of the Bucharest suburb of Serban-Voda. accused, with his wife, of 87 murders during the revolt, of concealing 70 truckloads of Iron Guard loot in his home - cotton, wool, silk, furniture, canned goods, jewelry, silverware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: New Order | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...Uruguay $7,500,000, part to finish a power dam on the Negro River started five years ago with German capital, the rest to improve the beef and wool indus tries. Since Great Britain has already bought all Uruguay's 1941 wool clip, the Uruguayan loan is indirect aid to Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Mr. Pierson Pitches Woo | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

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